Chapter 3 White Lotus

Chapter 3 White Lotus

Adam's vision was initially blurry, but when it focused, he found himself standing on a vast green plain.

"W-What is this place?!" He flustered.

To say he was shocked beyond belief would be a severe understatement. One moment he was bathing in the pond, the next, he was transported to this foreign place.

The following moment, the scene around him changed and a handsome young man with long black hair, and wearing black armor appeared in front of him.

Adam's eyes turned wide as he retreated a few steps. "W-Who the hell are you?!"

However, the black-armored man couldn't seem to hear him at all or see him for that matter. Before Adam could inquire further, thousands of people appeared in his vicinity out of nowhere.

Some were levitating in the air, while others were standing on the ground, completely surrounding the black-armored man. Just their auras alone left Adam feeling breathless.

Only one word echoed inside his mind: Magus!

When he looked at the black-armored man, he found that the man was incomparably calm. His back was straight and there was not even a hint of fear in his eyes.

Adam gulped involuntarily and thought in amazement, Just who is this person?!

Next, the people in the scene began talking in a foreign language and Adam couldn't make heads or tails of it. But from the expressions of the thousands of Magi that had surrounded the man, he understood that they hadn't come with good intentions. Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

What unfolded next completely changed Adam's worldview.

The thousands of Magi gathered here attacked the armored man all at once. Bright colors bloomed as spells of devastating magnitude were cast one after another. The ground cracked and the sky split apart.

Adam's mouth was agape as he observed the great battle unfold.

Disoriented, he looked around in a daze and saw motes of bright light floating around lazily. Some were small, while others were big.

It took him a long time to come to his senses but he still found it difficult to digest the grand and spectacular scene of the lone Magus fending off against thousands of people.

"That man was wielding the same lotus I found in the pond..." he mumbled in disbelief.

Adam's eyes then fell on the mote of light hovering near him. He gulped nervously and reached out his hand in anticipation. However, before he could, the scene changed once again and he found himself floating on the pond he had earlier been bathing in.

He looked around and found that the white lotus was nowhere to be seen!

"No! Where is it?!" Adam panicked. By now it would be stupid of him to not realize that the white lotus was in fact some kind of powerful magic artifact that could potentially alter his life.

The youth looked around frantically, but the lotus was nowhere in sight. Suddenly, he caught sight of his hazy reflection on the pond's surface and froze.

At the center of his forehead, a little above his eyebrows was a lotus insignia!

Adam's eyes lit up in excitement as he thought of a possibility. Could it be that the white lotus fused with me?!

Thinking of this, he was incomparably excited. He didn't know what the lotus was, but what he did know was that it was an extremely powerful tool that could help him on his path to becoming a Magus!

Slowly, under his observation, the lotus insignia completely melded with his skin and disappeared.

After gathering his thoughts, Adam swam to the edge of the pond. He dried himself and wore a fresh pair of clothes—a blue tunic and white pants.

He absentmindedly walked toward the bonfire where the dinner was being distributed when all of a sudden a mocking voice full of disdain drifted into his ears.

"Oh, if it isn't the peasant warrior!"

Adam's eyes narrowed as he involuntarily clenched his fists. He looked toward the source of this voice with annoyance. This bastard again.